Hachette CEO David Shelley blames smartphones for the reading crisis in a widely syndicated op-ed. The correlation is real. The causation isn’t – and his own history should have warned him.
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Sharjah has secured exclusive rights to operate BookXcess across the Middle East and Africa. TNPS traces the deal back to a 2019 pledge — and asks why Western trade press missed it.
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Best of all, the festival will host the 5K Reading Marathon – “Together We Read,...
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The Atlantic blames shrinking attention spans for reading’s decline. The research it cites measured office multitasking, not books – and today’s bestsellers are longer than ever.
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The Atlantic used Doctor Zhivago to argue Americans once read harder books. The real story is a CIA operation, a refused Nobel, and a translation quirk — not declining minds.
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